The internet is upset with Dying Light 2's technical shortcomings

Dying Light 2: Stay Human from Techland has seen decent critic reviews since launch. The game is sitting at a 79 on Metacritic. However, things are a little different on the player side of things.

If the 5.2/10 User Score doesn't make it apparent enough, gamers have been voicing issues with the brand new open world zombie game since day one.

Dying Light 2 is home to hordes of Infected - and bugs?

From Reddit to Twitter, gamers have been sharing their unfortunate experiences with Dying Light 2: Stay Human.

Some of the harmless and funny problems are :

1) Headspinner

2) Magic trick

3) A change of skybox

4) Field of fire

5) Attack of the grass

6) Hya!

7) Superjump

Some of the more game-breaking bugs are:

1) Malfunctioning keybinds

2) Audio issues

3) Broken quest progression

4) Non-interactive NPCs

5) Progression reward bug

6) Deathloop

7) Missing textures

Dying Light 2's various bugs

Some of these, like infinite death and progression hindering issues, are genuinely concerning. For a game that was delayed twice (first in 2020 and later in 2021) and still turns out to be unpolished - it might seem like Dying Light 2: Stay Human went through a troubled development phase. And that affected the final product, especially console versions.

Designer/writer Chris Avellone was kicked off the project for alleged sexual misconduct in June 2020. So logically, the game likely saw a downgrade in design since the writer for Fallout 2 and Baldur's Gate was out of the picture. The inclusion of a brand new engine (C-Engine) for making the game instead of relying on the pre-existing Chrome Engine certainly complicated matters further.

The final product does seem less ambitious than the E3 demos had fans believe - both on the visual and design front. This is a shame, but it seems to be the trend with AAA budget offerings these days.

Dying Light 2: Stay Human overview

Dying Light 2: Stay Human takes place after the events of the first game where a virus outbreak turned residents of the surrounding city into zombies. The sequel features a new protagonist named Aiden Caldwell. Traveling the zombie-infested, post-apocalyptic world as a Pilgrim in search for his sister Mia, he visits Villedor, the City. Players will parkour across the landscape of Villedor, battle the Infected in close-quarters melee, and debate with humans to learn answers to Aiden's questions.

Dying Light 2: Stay Human is available for PC, PS4, PS5, XB1, and XSX|S for the retail price of $60 for the base game. A cloud version for the Nintendo Switch will launch later this year.

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